It’s simple – they spend time “hanging out, messing around and geeking out.” danah boyd, who came over for a Webstock mini a little while back, was one of a team led by Mimi Ito and funded by “Genius Grant” providers MacArthur Foundation. They conducted a 3 year study, spent $3.3 million, did 22 case …
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The power of the internet
Oh the power of the internet – the 35 to 40 million or so people using it, the 386 computer, 8Mb RAM and don’t forget the 14.4 kbps modem so that you can capture the true multi-media internet experience. This video has it all…. Via Andreas Von Gunten from an original post from waxy.org. There …
Please don’t bail out GM
I have to agree with Greg Saunders, posting at Tom Tomorrow on this: “When it comes to bailing out the auto industry, count me in the “let them starve” camp. The auto industry has been outsourcing American jobs for 25 years now with little regard for the devastated communities they’ve left in their wake (seriously, …
Rate this article
For the last two posts I referred to articles published on Venturebeat. I’d never heard of them, but have now added Venturebeat to my tech reads. Not only were they a decent source of news (well written, well researched, timely), but they also had a simple feature that made me a fan: Rate this story. …
Woo me
Kind of like Trade Me, only…. different. Very very different. Woome Woo me has a simple concept – setting up video calls between guys and gals – an online one minute speed date. And now you can record the conversation and post it for posterity, and they could even get on to TV. The site …
The YouTube president – the implications
President Obama will address the nation world each week via YouTube. Apparently Stunningly simple. The effect is to remove the filter that the networks and newspapers place on the presidency and political process. It also removes much of their power to control the conversation. Here’s the first one. Traditional US media should be concerned – …
Helping societies drink responsibly
In a not entirely unsurprising finding, a researcher in the USA has discovered that alcohol related deaths will fall if you increase taxes on alcohol. No kidding. We seem to have that pretty well figured out in New Zealand and Australia. I’d like to see a much broader international scale study relating the inputs to …
Rowan returns
I can’t imagine why Rowan left out this photo from his travels in Nepal post. Worth reading.
Proud to be American again
An American friend sent me this, and granted me permission to publish it. Stunning. To my friends around the world— A week ago today, on November 4, 2008, I cast my vote for the next US president. That day I woke up at 3 in the morning in order to be at my local polling …
LanceWiggs marketing effectiveness is 97.9th percentile
Well apparently that’s an indication of the marketing effectiveness of LanceWiggs.com versus the “hundreds of thousands” of other ranked websites on Hubspot’s website grader. It’s a pretty lousy measure, truth be told, as Trade Me scores lower at 96.3% and Stuff gets just 95.3%. More interestingly it provides bit more detail about sites’ marketing effectiveness. …
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We are living longer
It seems that we now have a longer life expectancy – 82.2 for women and 78 for men, up 1 and 1.7 years However there is still a substantial difference for Maori – with Maori newborns having life expectancy of 75.1 and 70.4 years. This is a key metric for New Zealand, for any country …
NZ Election Winners – No Google Stuff
Googling “NZ Election” gives interesting results – Stuff is nowhere to be seen and the Aussie sites punch higher than the NZHerald. Poor Stuff – even the Fiji Times is on the front page – ahead of 3 News and TVNZ as well. If I filter for the last hour it is a bit better …
NZ Election winners now confirmed!!!
Here they are. In first place:Electionresults.govt.nz – updates every handful of minutes and is the official source. In second place: TVNZ. There is no rolling text commentary: But despite a tag saying video is only available to NZ viewers the video link actually works and I am now watching TVNZ’s coverage. It seems to have …
Building a Strategy for New Zealand – some starters
Here are a few starter strategy phrases. They should give some flavour of the sorts of things that could make good goals. The idea is not to have a goal cover everything, but to address the key things that drive the big changes in the big numbers. Let’s take life expectancy as an example. We …
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Building a Strategy for New Zealand – two approaches
Writing a strategy is relatively simple – anyone can do it. Of course there is a catch.. The hard bit is getting people to agree to a strategy, (and the really hard bit is to execute that strategy effectively.) One good way to develop and gain agreement to a strategy is to gather the key …
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